Day 7 - 2nd day back to work

Well, this morning I have very little aching pains at any of my incision sites. When I move or bump things I feel minor pain from them. Desks and conference room tables are the perfect height to bother my incision sites. =(

I am really glad that I decided to come back to work on Day 6, because I don't feel bad enough to be home, as a matter of fact I have more energy now than I did two weeks ago. I have no idea if this is "for real" energy or some kind of natural high from the excitement of the situation.

I tried soaking my timed release wellbutrin yesterday. That didn't really seem to work because I soaked the pill for 6 hours and it hardly did anything to the pill. Well, today I tried crushing it just a "weee" bit and THAT was a worse idea. I got all of the medication and once and was a "jittery fool". LOL. I will just let is soak for 6 hours from now on as that seems to be the best of two not so good options.

When I woke up this morning, my body felt lighter, and I just "sprung" out of bed. It seems like my body is carrying around less weight, which it is, 20 pounds to be exact. I am also not wearing a bra at work again today. I have been chosing my outfits carefully in order to accomplish this . Normally, I hate to go bra-less, but the pain of wearing a bra is so unbearable at the moment that bra-less doesn't bother me one bit.

After yesterday's sausage fiasco, I gladly ate my Dannon carb solutions strawberry yogurt for breakfast.

One of the things that has been on my mind is........that I anticipated much more pain. I read where women had excruiciating gas pains and extreme soreness at their port sites etc. I do have all of that, but I can't really qualify it as excruciating or extreme. After 2 years of going through chemotherapy, malignant tumor removal, removal of malignant tissue from the area of my tumor, and extreme pain that I would qualify on a scale of 1 to 10 an 8. Compared to the pain at my tumor surgery site during recovery this seemed almost like a cake walk. To give an idea of what my pain scale is like, I would qualify childbirth at about a 7. This whole ordeal was about a 3. I honestly have always thought that I had a very low tolerance to pain. I wonder if I do? It seems interesting how everything is relative, maybe this ordeal is more painful for people who would consider childbirth a 10. I guess because I know there are things out there that hurt worse than childbirth it may make my version of pain a bit skewed. Oh well, just something I was thinking about.....

Morning Scale: 212

Food today:

cup of coffee black w/ 1 equal

Breakfast - Dannon carb solutions strawberry yogurt 4oz. (couldn't finish it all)

Lunch - 2 oz of fat free cottage cheese and about 15 grapes

cup of coffee black w/ 1 equal

Dinner - 1/2 cup of organic creamy broccoli soup

Excersize: None

Have you talked to your doctor or the pharmacist about the wellbutrin? Sausage fiasco.....I will have to go read about it. LOL

Poor thing, eggs gave me problems early on and still do sometimes.

Funny everyone is giving me the run around about my wellbutrin pill. I think I read on here that the best solution is to go back to my PCP and get two smaller doses to equal the greater one. I bet my insurance is gonna have a run with that one, they are very very finicky about drugs! LOL.

Now, as far as the sausage, that is not on my Dr.s 7-day post-op diet. LOL. So, I shouldnt have been eating it in the first place. I think I will just stick to the diet from now on. =)